Vathy
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She/her thirty-something gremlin from NI
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November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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Wow. Only like every librarian, teacher, professor, writer, etc worth their salt has been saying this since the damnable thing came out.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wow. Only like every librarian, teacher, professor, writer, etc worth their salt has been saying this since the damnable thing came out.
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THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
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The worst part of getting older is witnessing the moral panic you saw play out like a decade before return in a flimsy new disguise, like a Scooby-Doo villain attempting to commit insurance fraud
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The worst part of getting older is witnessing the moral panic you saw play out like a decade before return in a flimsy new disguise, like a Scooby-Doo villain attempting to commit insurance fraud
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
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Even television show captions do something similar. The number of times “speaks [insert foreign language]” text covers up the actual dialogue in the captions makes me wanna fight the air.
i need streamers, youtubers and other content creators to stop putting words at the bottom of the screen where the captions will be. the amount of times i’ve had to rewind to pause and see what pop up jokes they put in that i can’t see because there’s captions over it 🙃
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Even television show captions do something similar. The number of times “speaks [insert foreign language]” text covers up the actual dialogue in the captions makes me wanna fight the air.
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For each kink you hate, I guarantee you have at least one friend who is secretly into it
-Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment
-you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨
-Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment
-you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
For each kink you hate, I guarantee you have at least one friend who is secretly into it
-Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment
-you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨
-Each time you are aggressive about that kink, that friend is scared you will subject them to violent emotional abuse and abandonment
-you can forever improve that friendship by being a bit nicer about kink art✨
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Stede would absolutely have these over the top little decorations on every single door. Probably themed to each room.
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Stede would absolutely have these over the top little decorations on every single door. Probably themed to each room.
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Finished Wee John and his flowers 🌼
I definitely need a bit more practice drawing him, but given it's only the second portrait I ever did of him, I think it turned out alright.
Also, watercolour paper isn't perfect for just coloured pencil, but I still enjoyed it a lot <3
#ofmd #ofmdart #ofmdfanart
I definitely need a bit more practice drawing him, but given it's only the second portrait I ever did of him, I think it turned out alright.
Also, watercolour paper isn't perfect for just coloured pencil, but I still enjoyed it a lot <3
#ofmd #ofmdart #ofmdfanart
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Finished Wee John and his flowers 🌼
I definitely need a bit more practice drawing him, but given it's only the second portrait I ever did of him, I think it turned out alright.
Also, watercolour paper isn't perfect for just coloured pencil, but I still enjoyed it a lot <3
#ofmd #ofmdart #ofmdfanart
I definitely need a bit more practice drawing him, but given it's only the second portrait I ever did of him, I think it turned out alright.
Also, watercolour paper isn't perfect for just coloured pencil, but I still enjoyed it a lot <3
#ofmd #ofmdart #ofmdfanart
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hell yes!! more of this!!!
we are protecting people, but also our own time and our own brains!!!!!
we are protecting people, but also our own time and our own brains!!!!!
I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
hell yes!! more of this!!!
we are protecting people, but also our own time and our own brains!!!!!
we are protecting people, but also our own time and our own brains!!!!!
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I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I don't use generative AI because as a writer of fiction, it offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy when I do research. It's not worth the environmental impact. That it's been created by stealing my work and using it in breach of copyright law is a further but separate issue.
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don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this.
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this.
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"
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The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
i know im preaching to the choir here but yall know the violence done to trans women specifically is demonstrative, theyre making an example out of us to keep everyone in line, right ? theyre saying "this is what will happen to you if you break our gender rules"
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Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.
The show must go on.
The show must go on.
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Couldn’t decide on plain pants or printed ones. Then I couldn’t decide on slipper style. Background or not. Rainbow unicorn hair or horn. Sleep mask or not. So… I compromised for a double post for today’s #OurFlagMeansFall2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Couldn’t decide on plain pants or printed ones. Then I couldn’t decide on slipper style. Background or not. Rainbow unicorn hair or horn. Sleep mask or not. So… I compromised for a double post for today’s #OurFlagMeansFall2025